Two U.S. astronauts going to make the first splashdown return in quite a while said Friday they’ll have seasick bags prepared to utilize if necessary.

SpaceX and NASA intend to bring Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken back Sunday evening in the organization’s Dragon capsule, focusing on the Gulf of Mexico simply off the Florida Panhandle. Flight controllers are keeping close watch on Hurricane Isaias, expected to adhere to Florida’s east drift.

Hurley said in the event that he and Behnken become ill while swaying in the waves anticipating recuperation, it won’t be the first run through for a team. Astronauts returning in the mid 1970s from Skylab, NASA’s first space station, didn’t feel well after splashdown, Hurley noted.

Feeling sick “is the way it is with a water landing,” he said during the team’s last news meeting from the International Space Station.

This will be SpaceX’s first splashdown with astronauts ready, finishing a two-month experimental drill that started May 30 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center — the first launch of a group from the U.S. in almost 10 years. The capsule has been docked at the space station since May 31, permitting Hurley and Behnken to contribute with spacewalks and analyzes.

Hurley said the crisis and other hardware has looked at well on board Dragon, named Endeavor. Launch and meeting went impeccably, “so we expect nothing different for the splashdown,” he said.

Their takeoff leaves three ready, one American and two Russians.

After splashdown, it will take an hour or so before the container is pulled by crane onto a SpaceX recuperation transport, where the bring forth will be opened and the space explorers will get out. Flight specialists will be among the many the recuperation colleagues.

The arrangement is for the Dragon to undock from the space station on Saturday, a day prior to splashdown. The ideal objective is off the bank of Panama City, somewhere between Tallahassee and Pensacola.

“We won’t leave the space station without some good landing opportunities in front of us, good splashdown weather,” Behnken told reporters. “We could stay up here longer. There’s more chow and I know the space station program’s got more work that we can do.”

Like launch, the ride back will be basically robotized, with the team and flight controllers interceding just if essential.

Behnken has an additional motivation to bring this Dragon back fit as a fiddle. Following renovation, the case will fly again the following spring with a group of four — including his significant other, NASA space traveler Megan McArthur. SpaceX’s next space explorer flight is focused for the finish of September.

Behnken said even before his dispatch, they had a notion she would be doled out to a SpaceX flight. NASA reported the news this week.

“And of course, I’ll have a lot of tips for her,” he said.

Hurley is hitched to as of late resigned NASA space traveler Karen Nyberg.

NASA went to SpaceX and Boeing for U.S.- based team transport after the space transports resigned in 2011. Russian rockets were the main route for space travelers to get to the space station until SpaceX turned into the primary privately owned business to dispatch people into space two months prior. Boeing’s first team flight isn’t normal until one year from now.